Top 45 Homage Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Homage Quotes from famous people such as Steve Sabol, Adam West, James Russell Lowell, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Glasper, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

You know how I came up with the name 'Road to the Super

You know how I came up with the name ‘Road to the Super Bowl?’ It’s an homage to the old Bob Hope – Bing Crosby buddy movies – you know, like ‘Road to Zanzibar’ or ‘Road to Morocco.’ Can you tell? All I’ve done my whole life is go to movies.
Steve Sabol
I think our Batman had to be fun, light-hearted, funny, tongue-in-cheek… and I think that made kind of an homage to those earlier comic books, where Batman always had a quip or something.
Adam West
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
James Russell Lowell
What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. ‘The Dreamers’ was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.
Bernardo Bertolucci
I feel like, paying homage to an artist, it’s better to do something that’s inspired by them – a new work that’s inspired by them – versus another person saying they redid your song.
Robert Glasper
This homage has been rendered not to me – for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me – but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so ‘The Gravedigger’s Daughter’ is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated.
Joyce Carol Oates
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
Whether it’s a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.
Diablo Cody
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
‘Psych’ was so many different things, and they evolved in so many different ways over the years, and towards the end there, we were barely solving mysteries anymore. We were just paying homage to our favorite movies, television shows, and bringing through as many ’80s icons as we possibly could.
James Roday
There’s no way that I could have known about a 72-oz. steak challenge in Amarillo unless thousands upon thousands of locals and travellers alike had attempted it. I guess if ‘Man V Food’ is me paying homage to these legends, then I suppose ‘Man V Food Nation’ is the legacy.
Adam Richman
Karzzz is my way’ of paying homage to the mesmerising cinema of ’80s, to Subhash Ghai’s revered cult film ‘Karz.’
Satish Kaushik
I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
Charles Curtis
To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should pay homage to those brave Americans who stormed ashore at Omaha Beach and gave their lives for the freedom of others.
Fatos Nano
Ever since ‘The Goldbergs’ began, one of my dreams was to write a homage to ‘Highlander.’
Adam F. Goldberg
When I made my Obey logo, it was 100 percent an homage to Barbara Kruger’s work and 0 percent had anything to do with Supreme.
Shepard Fairey
My insane mascara layering is my private homage to Winona Ryder’s amazing peepers.
Barrett Wilbert Weed
Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.
Erik Erikson
Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.
Ralph Bakshi
Beneath the Sugar Sky’ is an homage to the portal fantasies of my childhood: it is the portal running in reverse.
Seanan McGuire
That’s a little homage in a way to that and also to create that sort of creepy atmosphere that Hitchcock did. Vertigo was one of his great movies that was shot right here in The City and it’s about a woman and the psychological twists and so forth.
Philip Kaufman
In an homage, you always want to subvert it and have fresh new takes. You don’t want the audience to say, ‘Oh they just did ‘The Amityville Horror’ there,’ you always want to add something new.
Misha Green
I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage.
Lillie Langtry
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
Frances Wright
My sound definitely pays a lot of homage to the Nineties, but not just the dance music. There’s also breakbeats, R&B, the big ballads. It’s that whole era infused with very modern sounds.
Kiesza
To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never received my homage; and whilst life is in this persecuted body, he shall never receive it.
William Wallace
We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we’re just carrying the torch.
Shawn Wayans
When I was a kid, I watched Hugo Sanchez videos. The backflip I sometimes do when I score is actually an homage to him.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
When I was a kid, my mother used to drive my father to work in Indianapolis, and I would see, practically every day of my young life, a huge Phillips 66 sign. So it is the red and green of that sign against the blue Hoosier sky. The blue in the ‘Love’ is cerulean. Therefore, my ‘Love’ is an homage to my father.
Robert Indiana
Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in im

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you’re so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.
Curtis Sittenfeld
The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn’t pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.
Ken Kesey
Apl has a lot of songs that are paying homage to his native tongue. He’s from the Philippines. He has songs inspired by his culture.
Taboo
In a way, the highest praise you could give to a composer like Bach was to take and make your own arrangement; it was sort of an homage to that composer and to his work, so it wasn’t considered sacrilegious to do something like that.
Joshua Bell
If you’re a director and you pay homage to Japan, you’re definitely going to remember what you’ve learned from watching the Japanese masters’ films.
Alexandre Desplat
Led Zeppelin, you can’t find a better band to pay homage to.
Ann Wilson
Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Sometimes it takes time to become part of the collective unconscious, just like ‘Fanboys’ did. Going into that movie, I said to myself that if you were a ‘Star Wars’ fan, you were going to love that movie. It’s an homage to everything science-fiction, but especially ‘Star Wars.’
Dan Fogler
I have been blessed to have been working since I was 11. I think horror is an underrated genre. When done really well like in ‘The Ruins’, it pays homage to some of the stuff I really love in the ’70s and incurs some of that energy the fanbase really wants to see.
Jonathan Tucker
In a basic sense, ‘A Little Life’ is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It’s a different version of adulthood, but it’s no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else’s.
Hanya Yanagihara
In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue – is hypocrisy.
Lord Byron
Nobody is exempt from being respectful to the business and paying homage to the guys drawing money. We all have done it. Steve Austin did it; The Rock did it.
Sean Waltman
‘Malandrinas’ means ‘bad girls,’ but not bad in a negative way. I wrote it in homage to my female fans.
Jenni Rivera
A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.
Jules Verne